Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taking along several thousand Talking Letter recording tapes, Cardinal Spellman left Manhattan to spend Christmas with the troops in Korea. Invited to make the holiday visit to the war zone by General James A. Van Fleet, the cardinal planned to arrive in time to say Christmas Mass "any place, even if it is in a cave. I'll be happier in Korea than any place else, even St. Patrick's Cathedral...
...Fleet Street buzzed with explanations. Even though he had doubled the circulation of the Mirror and boosted the circulation of its even gaudier Sunday Pictorial (5,000,000) almost 70% since war's end, many a Fleet Streeter thought he had tried to tackle too much. The Mirror has bought paper mills in Canada, a string of newspapers in Africa and Australia and a chain of Australian radio stations. Mister Bart had also started a labor weekly, Public Opinion, to challenge the left-wing New Statesman and Nation and Bevanite London Tribune. Public Opinion folded, and the Mirror also...
Morrison became embarrassing, especially after Morrison flopped on his job. The Mirror and the Sunday Pictorial had claimed a big share in Labor's 1945 victory and its return to power in 1950, and Fleet Street whispered that the paper had become Morrison's mouthpiece. Finally the Mirror was sued for libel by Winston Churchill, for labeling him a warmonger during the last election...
...Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Over the years, two U.S. Navy subs have been christened Nautilus, and the best-remembered of them was the monster 3,000-ton boat of World War II fame. Launched in 1930, she was huge and .deadly, twice as big as ordinary fleet boats, with a pair of six-inch guns, two decks and six 21-inch torpedo tubes. Before she was scrapped because of old age in 1946, World War II's Nautilus went on 14 successful patrols, was the first U.S. sub to sink a Japanese aircraft carrier...
...Westerners recently to get a peek behind the Iron Curtain is a lanky young London banker named John Lindsay Eric Smith. Scion of a family who have been bankers since 1688, Smith went to Eton and Oxford, served in the fleet air arm, and is now a managing director of Coutts' bank. Excerpts from his report on Russia in The National & English Review, a Conservative monthly...